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What can you remember about Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin?

utin, Vladimir (president) President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in Leningrad (Now St. Petersburg) on October 7, 1952. In 1975 he graduated from the Legal Department of Leningrad State University and was given a post in the security service. From 1985 to 1990 he served in the GDR. On August 20, 1991, he tendered his resignation from the security service. In 1990 he was given the post of Assistant President of Leningrad State University for international affairs and later served as adviser to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council. On June 12, 1991, he was appointed chairman of the Committee on External Ties of the St. Petersburg Mayoralty. In that post he was responsible for investment in the city's economy, the establishment of joint ventures and cooperation with foreign partners. In 1994-96 he served as first deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg government and chairman of the Committee on External Ties of the St. Petersburg Mayoralty. He also headed a municipal operation commission. He was in charge of the city's law-enforcement bodies and contacts with St. Petersburg's Legislative Assembly and the Public Relations Department. In August 1996 he was appointed deputy director of the property department under the President in Moscow. In March 1997 he was appointed deputy head of the President's Administration and head of the Main Control Directorate. From May 1998 he served as first deputy head of the President's Administration (with special responsibilities for contacts with the country's regions). In July 1998 he was appointed Director of the Federal Security Service and in March 1999 - Security Council Secretary. He held the post of Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation from August 1999. On December 31, 1999, he became Acting President of the Russian Federation. On March 26, 2000, he was elected President of the Russian Federation. On May 7, 2000, he was inaugurated as President of the Russian Federation. He holds a degree in economics. He speaks fluent German and has a basic command of English. -8-

He has practiced sambo (unarmed self-defense) and judo since he was eleven years old. In 1973 he was awarded the title of Sports Master in sambo, and the same title in judo was conferred on him in 1975. His wife is Lyudmila Alexandrovna Putina. The Putins have two daughters.

Tell the class two things you discovered about Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

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“How tall....?” “Tell me about.....”

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“.....married?”

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ational Symbols

The national coat of arms, the national flag and the national anthem are symbols of the Russian state. The national symbols of the Russian Federation reflect historical continuity. The history of Russia's flag and coat of arms began many centuries ago. In December 2000 and January 2001 the national symbols of the Russian Federation were enshrined in federal laws on the coat of arms, flag and anthem. These laws also define the use of the national symbols. The Russian press acclaimed that event as reflecting the desire of Russian leaders to reconcile society with the history of the Russian state and restore historical continuity. The capital of the Russian state -Moscow - is also considered to be a national symbol.

he State Flag of the Russian Federation

The State Flag of the Russian Federation is an official symbol of state power; embodies state

sovereignty. -9- On December 11, 1993, President B.N. Yeltsin of the Russian Federation signed Decree "On the State Flag of the Russian Federation" and approved Statute of the State Flag of the Russian Federation. The documents say this: "The State Flag of the Russian Federation shall be a right-angled piece

of bunting of three equivalent horizontal stripes: upper, white; middle, blue; lower, red in colour.

The ratio of the flag's width to its length shall be 2:3." In fact, the State Flag of the Russian Federation reproduces the merchant marine flag that existed in Russia since 1705 (from 1873 on, it was considered a state flag along with the Romanovs' black-gold-white dynastic flag). The exact order of stripes on the flag is known since Peter I's times as well: the upper stripe is white, the middle blue, and the lower red. The arrangement of the stripes fitted in with the ancient concept of the world: the physical and carnal world is below, the heavenly world is above it, and the divine world is superimposed upon the two. In the 19th century, the stripes were made to symbolize the concord of the three East Slavic peoples: the Byelorussians, the Ukrainians, and the Russians. In Old Russia, the colors of the flag were always symbolic of human qualities: white, nobility and frankness; blue, fidelity, integrity, irreproachability, chastity; red, courage, audacity, self-sacrifice, magnanimity and love. The state flags of the Russian Federation are hoisted atop the buildings of the supreme bodies of state power and administration, embassies, trade missions, consulates of the Russian Federation abroad, are flown by ships in the high seas and in the territorial waters of foreign states, etc. The State Flag of Russia is hung on a specialized flag-pole (mast) in front of a building or atop a building. Whenever raised vertically, the white stripe shall be on the left and the red stripe on the right.

ational Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation

The National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation is an official state symbol of the Russian Federation. The State Duma passed on December 8, 2000, Federal Constitutional Bill "On the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation," which was later approved by the Federation Council and signed into law, on December 25, 2000, by President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation. The National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation is a quadrangular red heraldic shield with rounded lower angles and a pointed extremety, which has a gold two-headed eagle rising up on open wings. The eagle wears two small crowns and one large above them, linked by a band.. In its right talon it holds an orb, and in the left a sceptre. On its chest is a red shield, on which a silver horseman in a blue cloak is riding to the left on a silver horse. He is piercing a black, prone dragon with a silver spear as the horse tramples it. -10-

The gold two-headed eagle placed against the red background keeps historical continuity with the color gamut of the late 15th - 17th century coats of arms. In its design, the eagle dates back to images on monuments of Peter the Great's epoch. It is his three historic crowns that are depicted above the eagle's heads, which in the new conditions symbolize the sovereignty of both the Russian Federation as a whole and its parts, the subjects of the

Federation. The sceptre and the orb the eagle holds in its talons symbolize the state power and a united state. The horseman piercing a dragon on its chest is an ancient symbol of the clash of good and evil, light and darkness, as well as of defense of Fatherland. The restoration of the two-headed eagle as Russia's National Coat of Arms represents indissolubility and continuity of national history. Its present-day coat of arms is a new crest, but its components are profoundly traditional; it reflects the different stages of national history and carries them on in the third millennium.

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